Winnipeg Jets Morning Papers

Note: The Jets are looking to bounce back after a disappointing 5-2 loss to their division rival on Friday night. It was a busy day of practice on Saturday (Jets Practice Report will catch you up) as they prepared to face the Rangers this afternoon at Bell MTS Place. No morning skate with today’s 2 pm puck drop but you can check out the Jets pre-game report. Stay tuned throughout the day for any and all Jets news and updates via Twitter | Facebook | Instagram.

Note II: The Moose conclude their nine-game road trip this afternoon in Cleveland. The team has continued their strong play away from Manitoba going 6-1-0-1 to date and overall have a 20-5-1-1 in 27 road games this season. Puck drop in Cleveland is at 2 pm CST.

Winnipeg Sun: Five keys to the game. Begins with Ken’s big match between Blake Wheeler and Brady Skjei. His five keys include: 1) All about the rebound. 2) Connor heating up. 3) Shaking off the rust. 4) Long live the King. 5) Let the bidding commence.

Winnipeg Sun: Jets ready for Rangers after Friday’s lacklustre effort. With how close the central division is there is no time to waste time lamenting a poor effort. Watch video and make sure that your effort the next game is back to what folks have become accustomed to when watching Winnipeg play.

Winnipeg Sun: Hellebuyck relishing heavy load Jets No. 1 goalie taking steps to stay fresh. Ken asks the questions ‘How much is too much?’ to open this piece and I suspect if you ask any goalie they would want to play every game. We discussed this topic with retired NHL goalie Marty Biron when it comes to Hellebuyck specifically on the Illegal Curve Hockey Show back in January (starts at 10 minute mark). His thought was 60-65 games. Of course back in the Carolina days Paul Maurice once ran Arturs Irbe for 75 games in 1999-00 and 77 games in 2000-01 so it is anyone’s guess.

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Winnipeg Free Press: Maurice changes lines at Jets practice. (Paywall). It is a fairly simple recipe which just requires you to add a dash of Mathieu Perreault and you are likely to see immediate benefit to any line.